In the latest episode of The Flash, All Doll'd Up, we see Ralph aka Elongated Man swinging over buildings, throwing arms around like Spider Man does his web, while carrying Iris on his back. Just before that, he said he saw this in a comic book. It sounded to me like a tribute to Stan Lee. Am I r...

@Jenayah It wasn't that way until about 30 years ago actually. In the past, genderless singular they was only used when referring to a non-identified individual of unknown identity, e.g. when one leaves the bathroom, they should wash their hands. It still sounds weird even today when used as a gender-indefinite singular pronoun, e.g. I love my wife. They are my soul mate.

@Jenayah actually no, since now it'll be bumped from halfway the front page up to the top. So it'll be on the front page for a cycle and a half. If you wait until it has gone off, and then bump it, it'll be on the front page for two full cycles.

BattleTech actually has a dedicated option: there is an online BattleTech fiction site at BattleCorps.
This site was originally set up to do short fiction by the regular BattleTech authors. The site team have since begun moving the original BattleTech novels to ebook; you can buy these directl...

Hop is a 2011 American 3D live-action/computer-animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and released by Universal Pictures. Directed by Tim Hill and produced by Chris Meledandri and Michele Imperato Stabile. The film was released on April 1, 2011, in the United States and the United Kingdom. Hop stars Russell Brand as E.B., the Easter Bunny (Hugh Laurie)'s son who'd rather drum in a band than succeed his father as the Easter Bunny; James Marsden as Fred O'Hare, a human who is out of work and wishes to become the next Easter Bunny himself; and Hank Azaria as Carlos, an evil chick...

I am reading through a pile of Battletech novels and I can't seem to figure out what happened to the Black Thorns mercenary company.
Did they just get retconned out of existence or did a writer do an oopsie and accidentally kill them off?

([*-movie] expands to stargate-movie or moon-movie or and so on for all tags ending with -movie, then tags on the -[the-lego-batman-movie]. Then only works on the final tag in that list, because AND goes before OR).

OK, this seems to be a big issue for people here when deciding what is good and what is not. From what I can gather this is what constitutes a bad or not very good question on this site.
A question with an answer that can be googled easily
A question that if you logically think about it is eas...

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Since Asimov's robots are already shown as not possessing "human common sense" when applying the laws to their actions, law 1 pretty much forces robots to lock up humans in matrix-style cont...

Well... It's pointing fingers but (the way I see it) in a good way; I see several contributions by that user, especially in HP tag, but they're always using unregistered accounts. Which is too bad since from what I'm sure was theirs it's relatively good content

I mean of course could be someone different but you know same display name same avatar

We have at least a couple users who post regularly and never register accounts. Each time the cookies on their computer get cleared, they lose their old unregistered account and are given a new one. If we know of users like this, do we need to do anything about it?
Possibly the best well-known ...

Star Trek focuses on large, slow (in local space, anyway) ships which behave like battleships.
As a counter-example, Battlestar Galactica was in an "aircraft carrier universe", where the big ships don't fight as much directly, but instead send out squadrons of fighter craft.
Aircraft carriers i...

In the Doctor Who episode "Blink", the Doctor tells Sally this about the Weeping Angels:
They are quantum-locked. They don't exist when they're being observed. The moment they are seen by any other living creature, they freeze into rock. No choice. It's a fact of their biology. In the sight o...

I just finished reading Orconomics, first book of The Dark Profit Saga. It's a satire on corporate economics with adventurers and their loot acting as a sort of investment fund where kingdoms and other investors pay into the supply of heroes with an expected return on the items brought back, and ...

In the Doctor Who episodes with Weeping Angels, the Angels turn into statues when they are observed. In "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone", the Angel statues become deteriorated as the actual Angels die, which means that the state of the Angel's statue is connected to the state of its act...

Our internet speed at work is terrible so when I got a new contract (~2 weeks ago) I made sure I got lots of data... yesterday they announced we were upgrading to a dedicated line, after about 3 years of putting it off and saying "yeah it'll happen soon", so speeds should go through the roof -_-

@Edlothiad @TheLethalCarrot I've noticed both of you recently leaving feedback in comments on posts where you don't seem to actually be familiar with the franchise in question (Doctor Who in both cases, as it happens). I know you like to edit/comment on everything, but could you consider Skipping in cases like this?

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Given that the novel by Macey was written four years prior to the first broadcast of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and subsequent novelization, is there any evidence to suggest that Douglas Adams was aware of / referencing the Macey book, Stationary Orbit?
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I have a movie that is stuck in my head but I don't know what it is called. It isn't high production, I can't find it on websites for finding a moive and it isn't in any list anywhere.
I remember one scene specifically. The hero man is at the jail in a sherriff's office and the robot attacks...

He changed the way we look at heroes, and modern comics will always bear his indelible mark. His infectious enthusiasm reminded us why we all fell in love with these stories in the first place. Excelsior, Stan.